Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 542

BREGUET TWO-COLOR GOLD DRESS WATCH Breguet, No. 1164, case No. 9854, the case made by Verger Freres. Made circa 1925. Very fine, 18K white and yellow gold keyless pocket watch.

CHF 2,000 - 4,000

USD 2,200 - 4,300 / EUR 1,700 - 3,300

Sold: CHF 3,250

C. Four-body, "forme collier?, polished, yellow gold with white gold rims and bow, coin-edge band, the back with engraved initials on an applied gold lozenge. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, outer engraved minute divisions. Blued steel hands. M. 16???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed and numbered, case punched with Verger Freres mark and numbered. Diam. 44.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

542 - Verger: Two generations of designers and casemakers The fi rm was founded by Ferdinand Verger in 1872, Place des Victoires à Paris. Verger had two sons, Georges and Henri. In 1896 the trade mark ?F.V.? was registered. Ferdinand Verger bought the fi rm of Lépine, Place des Victoires in 1901, and in 1914 he sold the remaining stock to Louis Leroy but kept the trademark, which he registered again in 1917. Successors of their father in 1911, Georges and Henri settled at 51 rue Sainte Anne under the name of Verger Frères. They were the Paris agent for Vacheron & Constantin. Not only wholesalers but also designers and casemakers, they produced cases for the fi nest jewelers of the world, including Boucheron, Mauboussin, Ostertag, Tiffany, La Cloche, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Gübelin and even Hauser-Zivy y Cia. in Mexico.